Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-16
PROHIBITION.
What the Newspapers OF The state Say
OF the Contest in Texas Over
Alcohol and Malt.
Argum ents Pro and Argum ents Oon, which
arc Favored with tho Usual
Journalistic Condiments.

Here is a nut for the Prohibltio nists to
cracK: The leaders of thas party declare
against higd license. They say they
/ would prefer no license to high license.
But the amendment is high license. The
set prohibits manufacture and sale but
leaves the gate wide open to importers,
! therefore importers will be the sole
! liquor dealers, with only wealthy Gus
| TONERS, Of course, and the dealers in i'm
ported liquors will be high-licensed sa-
lOOnists. It's only changing the method
OF the trade after all, and the only i'm
pOrta2t effect Of the law will be the de-
! pIiviug of Texas manufacturers of wines,
! beer ard other liquors of a handsome
! living and turning it over to Foreigners
! Waco Examiner.
The few ladies like Mrs. Chaplin Of
! CharicstOn) who are occurring on the
subject of temperance w0rK ia Texas.
are here under the auspices of the
/ Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
and not OF the prohibition executive COM
mittee The WOman's Christian Tenn
peranCe Uli0n is nd organic &tiOn COM
( posed Of the wives and mothers Of the
state, AMI II made its arrangements with
these lady lecturers long before the
! present campaign was inaugurated AS
| for bringing in speakers from other states
it is not at all probable the prohibition
committee will do anything Of the Kind,
ssve in one case. II they can get United
States Senator COlquitt of Georgia
to come and make few speeches
they will do so. But st. John and other
professional lecturers on prohibition will
not be invited here, for the simple reason
that their services are no. needed-there
is home alent to do the work. Why i'm
port speakers when such Texans as 5.
B. MaXey, S. W. T. Lanham, 7. r. Bon
ner, j. W. Fleming, Ju1ge Nugent, w.
! S. HerndOn, r. NJ. Wynne and dOZ ms of
others, to the manner born, are here,
ready to take the field? No, this queS-
ton is to be settled in Texas, by Texans
aud for Texans, and if there is any elm
portatiOn" OF speakers it will not De by
the prohibition side Waco Day.
Mad people and people VINO are in hsste
to accomplish some great object, for fear
before it reached some stroke OF Opp0si-
tiOn may upset the best laid schemes, Of
ten fall into errors OF imperfectiJn that
prove at last fatal to their cause. As the
amendment looking to prohibition IS con-
sidered the more closely and critically it
and mistakes that arse invariably
from thOughtless oVer-zeai. The probA-
bilitieS are now that the very con
struction, VERBALLY and otherwise, OF the
prohibitory amendment will prove its
death warrant. A vast, sweeping reform,
such as the one proposed, should be pre-
diCated and agitated only upon the fairest
and Wlsgst terms after Tire application Of
the maturest craftsmanship and wisdom.
The Texas amendment seems TO be 9
crude, undigested piece of sO-Called tenn
peranCe zeal, wherein the state is sacri-
feed in vital particulars instead Of being
protected.
a mere mention of some of it's features
and COMMISSIONS will indicate the in US
ice and practical worthlessness of the
measure. In the first place the sale OF
liquor upon extremely loose cOnsidera-
lions is left to the druggist, thus giving
one class of dealers a monopoly or leading
to an infinite number of small drug stores
with large bar room attachments. In q
word, the saloons will remain while the
present magnificent revenue from them is
absolutely sacrificed. Then 8 blow is
struck at the industries of the stste on
the farm and plantation by falling to eX-
empt the sale and manufacture of native
wines. It mas been confidently aft cmed
that even the sunny slopes of France and
Spain or California afford no finer fields
for vineyards or more prospects of s
great future therefrom than many pOr-
ton of our own great state, In the third
place, the failure to prohibit the impor-
tatiOn of whisky leaves the broad gauge
avenues to the state open for flooding
the state and hIling the bibulous CITIZEN
with all the mean whisky t1aescan be
drank To go no farther ID the dis
CUssIOp, il will be seen that inherent
defects in the amendment give ap-
psTently: First, a monopoly to druggists
with very loose restrictions; secondly
lawfully permit all the whisky desired tt
DE brought into the State in jugs, kegs
etc and, thirdly, throws away maguiti
cent yearly Fegenu3 Of $500, 900 or ST.
000,Q go. Pbose checks to drunkenness
wins and beer, are swept away and tht
amendment seems to stand forth as {
blunder. Il may be possible. however
for the friends Of the amendment Il
answer these grave and growing Objec
tMOns. 1t is q poor question indeed
I that hiss but one side. 1t will, though, aE
it now seems, be no child's task, and as
the intiicaCies of the situation presen
/ GuSluSeIFGS IL IOUhS llOEG duu uOIS as l.
the 1ght were 10 prove a stubborn anC
bitter one. Not to be too positive now
the World can only say that as this cam
paign progresses it proposes to discus!
the measure from q standpoint purely o
reason and in the lights of experience
! which it may have SCI b,fore it.-[Dalla:
! World.
The forces are silently marshaIing TO
the great prohibition fight Every man.
hand will have to be played open in thi:
J fight. There will be no skulking under
false colors. II you are ProhibtioniSt
J vote and work for it; if you are anti, vot,
J and work for that side. You can't get gu
I under the plea that you are bound to vot'
for your friend. You see your friend i
not in the race Waco Examiner.
The Post is unable to see why any sucl
spirit should dominate the coming can
vass. There are thousands of good mel
who, from conviction, will vote for O
against prohibition, but who do not car
to make exhibitions of themselves by ant
through partisan tactics. 1t will be bet
FO,. ali